IMPRESSIVE Business Plan (Message 2)
According to the best of our knowledge, there is no other integrated solution like IMPRESSIVE Product that includes information sources (Copernicus EO data, UAV and ASV data) and elaborates on the data with the support of similar scientific modelling of oil spills/waste waters in harbours and their neighbouring areas. Of course, Copernicus EO data are available to end users, also several similar types of UAVs and ASVs are existing in the drones market but the major demand that arises currently is for an info-centric integrated platform that is customizable, scalable, configurable, validated, user friendly and of high scientific level (in order to rely efficiently on its outcomes).
IMPRESSIVE product provides all of these requirements in fact, it will be an online Service Infrastructure based on sale of services (not software): IMPRESSIVE Consortium will form a new legal entity (with the entire or a subset of the consortium partners) that will manage not only implementation and commercialization but also installation, infrastructure maintenance and customer service.